Many companies like mine use AWS infrastructure as a service (IaaS) heavily. Sometimes we want to perform a potentially risky operation on an EC2 instance. As long as we do not work with immutable ...

EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 ...

One of the big ongoing maintenance tasks that datacenter admins have to deal with is patch management. Even so, the need for patch management doesn't go away simply because a workload gets moved to ...

Almost half-a-million Amazon cloud servers run Linux every day. While Amazon has never officially said what it's running as EC2's base operating system, it's generally accepted that it's a customized ...

Cloud services are all the rage today, although some of my fellow Linux Journal staffers may scoff when they hear me say that. Cloud services is a nebulous term that can mean anything from completely ...

The price cuts, announced Monday, apply to EC2 Reserved Instances running Linux/UNIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. They cover Amazon's Standard (m1), Second-Generation ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of its sixth generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ...

Other the years, I have created more EC2 instances on the AWS cloud than I can count. Normally, establishing an RDP connection to a Windows instance is effortless ...